Until now I’ve been using an old 44 pin hard drive cable for connecting my shield to my break away board.
Last night I discovered I needed to reverse the way it was attached, and I couldn’t get it to fit since there is a chip on one side. After butchering the connectors so it was only 10 wide, it worked, but the IDC connector is falling to pieces.
So I figured I should really just order some proper connectors rather than ghetto hacking it.
Thanks to the tip from the monome boards I ordered some from All Electronics.
Been a while, apologies for the delay – got caught up in some chaos on another project (usernamecheck.com and it’s 100,000 visitors since it launched).
Anyway, back to this project. I finished the soldering today. At least finished until I need to fix all the bits that are buggy and broken.
I’ve managed to get to a point where I can get a horizontal (or vertical I guess) scrolling pattern. I was able to do all the serial name setting in XP in Parallels (more on that to come). It now shows up in “profiler” in OSX as the correct name, etc. Originally all the lights would come on, but I was matching in with in and out with out, but I think I was supposed to match in to out and vica versa – that is what I have now and I get the scrolling – which seems positive.
I can’t however see the arduinome in arduino serial or weirdly enough in the arduino client. It’s just not showing up under the devices – I just get all the bluetooth ones. More fiddling around tomorrow, I feel like I’m just trying stuff right now without even knowing what it might do – which is dangerous.
